Finding Things

Professional Help

If your major difficulty is finding things, then your health professional may want to determine what aspect of mental skill is underlying the problem. For example,

• It may be a problem with concentration, that is your mind wanders and that gap in concentration means you miss where you put down your specs (for example). A successful strategy might be to alert yourself with a certain word or phrase when you place an item, then “snapshot” a picture to store in your mind of the object in the place you have left it.
• Or it may be that the map of your world in your head, including the map of the rooms in your house, is not working as well as it used to. Ways to strengthen the map and make your recall of it more reliable will be developed.

See also “professional help general information”.